Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
Notes on enterprise-architecture development and application – for the whole enterprise, not just the IT domains
If service and product are different views into the same space, how would we use that in enterprise-architecture, service-design, product-design and suchlike? In the previous post, ‘Service, product, service, simplified‘, we explored a metaphor that perhaps doesn’t sound simple at …
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What is a service? What is a product? How do they relate with each other? And what’s a simple way to describe all of this? Yes, I’ve written a fair bit about this already – for example, ‘Product and service‘, …
What’s the weight of the past? For me, right now, it’s about two tons. Literally. I moved back to Australia in mid-March of this year. Courtesy of the pandemic-lockdown, every part of my initial plans for the move were shredded, …
What is knowledge? And what is its relation with data and information – or wisdom, for that matter? The starting-point for this was a question on LinkedIn from Josef Miklos, over in the Czech Republic: I am struggling with the …
(For a quick overview, see also the video ‘Enterprise architecture and coronavirus: Digital legacy‘, in the ‘Tetradian on Architectures’ playlist.) How will you protect your digital legacy? Do you know what that legacy is? Or where it is? And what …
[to the tune of “Where have all the flowers gone?”] Where have all the good skills gone? Long time passing Where have all the good skills gone? Long time ago Where have all the good skills gone? Gone to robots …
10; 100; 1000; 10000. A lot of things those numbers could apply to, of course, but in this case they’re ballpark figures for the number of hours of learning-based practice that it takes to develop specific levels of skill. (We …
In the Change-mapping method, what exactly is Action? Doesn’t action happen everywhere? The short-answer to that second question is actually ‘Yes’ – action does indeed happen everywhere. In which case, you might ask, what’s the point of having Action as …
It seemed straightforward enough as a description of the development process: explore, then exploit. (I forget which book we saw this in: one of Alex Osterwalder’s, I think, but I’m not sure.) Explore, to find out what the requirements are, …
Our new book is out! – ‘Change-mapping: Connecting business tools to manage change‘. (‘Our’ because it was a collaborative effort between myself and designer Joseph Chittenden, who contributed not just the graphics and layout but much more besides… – huge …